01666cam a2200229 4500 1925908003 TxAuBib 20240215120000.0 190824s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 60164 Project Gutenberg PGUSA eng TxAuBib Chesterton, G. K, 1874-1936, (Gilbert Keith.) Fancies Versus Fads [Gutenberg] / G. K. Chesterton. Project Gutenberg, 2019. Project Gutenberg ; 60164 Reading ease score: 65.7 (8th and 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Introduction -- The romance of rhyme -- Hamlet and the psycho-analyst -- The meaning of mock turkey -- Shakespeare and the legal lady -- On being an old bean -- The fear of the film -- Wings and the housemaid -- The slavery of free verse -- Prohibition and the press -- The mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett -- A defence of dramatic unities -- The boredom of butterflies -- The terror of a toy -- False theory and the theatre -- The secret society of mankind -- The sentimentalism of divorce -- Street cries and stretching the law -- The revolt of the spoilt child -- The innocence of the criminal -- The prudery of the feminists -- How mad laws are made -- The pagoda of progress -- The myth of the "Mayflower" -- Much too modern history -- The evolution of slaves -- Is Darwin dead? -- Turning inside out -- Strikes and the spirit of wonder -- A note on old nonsense -- Milton and merry England. Public domain in the USA. Text. English essays -- 20th century. Project Gutenberg ; 60164. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60164